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String   /strɪŋ/   Listen
String

noun
1.
A lightweight cord.  Synonym: twine.
2.
Stringed instruments that are played with a bow.  Synonym: bowed stringed instrument.
3.
A tightly stretched cord of wire or gut, which makes sound when plucked, struck, or bowed.
4.
A sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding.  Synonym: train.  "Train of mourners" , "A train of thought"
5.
A linear sequence of symbols (characters or words or phrases).
6.
A tie consisting of a cord that goes through a seam around an opening.  Synonyms: drawing string, drawstring.
7.
A tough piece of fiber in vegetables, meat, or other food (especially the tough fibers connecting the two halves of a bean pod).
8.
(cosmology) a hypothetical one-dimensional subatomic particle having a concentration of energy and the dynamic properties of a flexible loop.  Synonym: cosmic string.
9.
A collection of objects threaded on a single strand.
10.
A necklace made by a stringing objects together.  Synonyms: chain, strand.  "A strand of pearls"
verb
(past strung; past part. strung, rare stringed; pres. part. stringing)
1.
Thread on or as if on a string.  Synonyms: draw, thread.  "The child drew glass beads on a string" , "Thread dried cranberries"
2.
Add as if on a string.  Synonym: string up.  "String up these songs and you'll have a musical"
3.
Move or come along.  Synonym: string along.
4.
Stretch out or arrange like a string.
5.
String together; tie or fasten with a string.
6.
Remove the stringy parts of.
7.
Provide with strings.  Antonym: unstring.



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"String" Quotes from Famous Books



... string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like anything! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past, For of Agib, Prince of ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... with trepidation, a sou, half a cigarette, a piece of string, a murderous clasp knife, a young lady's photograph, and Labaregue's notice. The next moment the exchange of manuscripts ...
— A Chair on The Boulevard • Leonard Merrick
... frank pleasure showed. She added a long string of tortoiseshell beads which Roger had given her on his last visit, and surveyed the effect in the glass, thinking what a long time it was since ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... discovered, yet by the progressives they were held to be of the supremest importance in the equation of properly balanced human sustenance. To my knowledge I had never consciously eaten vitamines unless a vitamine was what gave guaranteed strictly fresh string beans, as served at a table-d'hote restaurant, that peculiar flavor. Here all along I had figured it was the tinny taste of the can, which shows how ignorant one may be touching on vitally important matters. I visualized ...
— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb
... the first doctors in Paris. I told him my symptoms; and then he set to work asking me a string of questions which I thought had nothing to do with the matter. I couldn't imagine what ...
— Ghosts • Henrik Ibsen


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